"Are you...... Yun Niang? ”

Wu Mengde was surprised when he recognized it.

"It's me, cousin!" Yun Niang wiped her tears, "It's been more than five years, I finally see you again, you really live up to expectations, become the big boss of the curtain shop!" ”

A few guys at the counter stuck their heads out to see what was fresh.

"Cousin, this is not a place to catch up, you follow me into the back hall-"

"Shopkeeper Wu."

Song Che shook the two bundles of tiger skins in his hand and asked, "With my cousin, I won't do business?" ”

Yun Niang came to introduce: "Cousin, this is Chen Gongzi, I went down to Yangzhou from Nanjing, and I received a lot of care from him along the way. ”

Wu Mengde patted his head and said with a smile: "Look at me, the joy of the reunion is too much, and I almost forgot that there is a big customer." ”

He stepped forward, examined the tiger skin in Song Che's hand, and exclaimed: "This tiger skin is a fine product, I don't know what Boss Chen will price?" ”

Thou art the best, but to him it has become a boutique. The price of the boutique is naturally not as good as the best.

Song Che took out two fingers and spit out lightly: "One price, two thousand taels." ”

Wu Mengde's smile stopped abruptly.

If it is an auction house, it may be worth two thousand taels, but a pawn shop must be cut in half at least.

"Boss Chen, the tiger skin on the market, five hundred taels is very high, you directly doubled. The store is thin, but I can't afford it. Wu Mengde didn't think about refusing.

"Can't afford it?"

"I can't afford it."

"Alas!"

Song Che sighed: "Shopkeeper Wu, don't you know, this way from Nanjing, if you don't have me to take care of you, your unmarried-"

The word "wife" is not spoken. Wu Mengde shouted first:

"Deal! Two thousand taels and two thousand taels! ”

"Shopkeeper Wu is really a refreshing person."

Song Che smiled and threw the tiger skin on the counter, signaling the man to exchange the silver.

Wu Mengde gritted his teeth, pulled Yun Niang and walked to the back hall.

The guys behind the counter are talking:

"Hey, what's going on with you shopkeeper today? No matter how good the tiger skin is, I don't dare to accept it like this. ”

"Most of the time I got carried away when I reunited with my cousin."

"I look at the relationship between the two of them, but they don't look like ordinary brothers and sisters."

"Yo, don't dare to spread this matter, if the proprietress knows, the tiger skin is not sold, and the skin of our shopkeeper will be picked up first!"

Song Che listened to it and guessed that it was not far from ten.

This brand pawnshop is the Liu family's industry, Wu Mengde is a foreigner, how can He De be the shopkeeper?

"Hey, your shopkeeper Wu is so afraid of his wife?" Song Che interjected casually.

A guy lowered his voice and said: "Shopkeeper Wu is the son-in-law of the big boss, this is an upside-down door, he can't even eat on weekdays, and he is beaten and scolded, which is better than many servants!" ”

"Our shopkeeper is reluctant to be famous and fortune, otherwise he would be a son-in-law for the Liu family. If it's me, I don't want to be killed, and the child I give birth to has to have a female surname, isn't this cutting off my own incense? The men who are sons-in-law are all soft bones! ”

"Hey, be quiet, don't let the shopkeeper hear it......"

Fuck ...... Song Che suddenly felt a hot pain on his face.

During the chat, the guy came out with ten ingots of gold, and Song Che just took it away, and saw Yun Niang slamming the door and coming out, tears in her eyes, never flowing.

"Yun Niang, listen to my explanation......"

Wu Mengde chased out the door and dragged Yun Niang's hand, no matter how he was a childhood sweetheart, he had some feelings.

Yun Niang pushed Wu Mengde away, hatefully: "Be your shopkeeper!" I won't bother you anymore, and from now on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other! Then he covered his mouth and ran out of the pawnshop.

Wu Mengde wanted to chase again, but Song Che stretched out his hand to stop him, "Shopkeeper Wu, when the judgment continues, he suffers from the chaos, since the fate has ended, why force it?" ”

Wu Mengde stopped at the bottom of the hall, looking at the back of Yun Niang's departure, helpless, and relieved.

On the way back to the inn, the carriage was silent. Song Che wanted to comfort her, but she was afraid of bursting her tears.

After returning to the inn, Yun Niang got out of the carriage as if nothing had happened, and galloped all the way to the guest room, until she closed the door, and only then did she hear the howling cry from inside.

"Brother-in-law, what's wrong with her?" Shen Fang asked curiously.

Song Che said: "Her cousin is dead. ”

Shen Fang's eyes lit up: "Huh? So she's so helpless? ”

Song Che shook his head and sighed lightly: "Remember that the salary is higher for others."

Shen Fang patted his chest and promised: "That's a must!" ”

Afternoon.

Song Che came to Baihua Street in Dongcheng.

Jiang Yun pretended to be a street runner, wearing a hat and a dog's tail in his mouth, and sat leisurely at the mouth of the alley.

Song Che went into the alley, unbuttoned his trouser belt, still tactically disguised, and asked casually: "Did you observe anything?" ”

Jiang Yun lowered his hat and said softly: "The women in the south of the Yangtze River are not as big as the women in the north." ”

"Uh......"

It's true!

That's no news.

Song Che trembled, put on his pants, and instructed: "Keep it up." Leave the alley as if nothing happened.

It can be seen that this group of pirates is extremely disciplined, and they are afraid that the rats will not come out of their burrows until they are on a mission.

Song Che inquired around Baihua Street again and found the landlord of the courtyard where the widows were hiding, whose surname was Huang and the owner of a grain shop on Baihua Street.

Song Che found Boss Huang on the grounds that he wanted to rent a house on Baihua Street, and took the opportunity to find out.

"Boss Huang, I see that the courtyard is in a moderate location and the layout is square, I don't know if someone can rent it?" Song Che pointed to the courtyard not far from the street and asked.

Boss Huang replied truthfully: "Yo, it's really unfortunate that this yard was rented out a month ago." ”

Song Che pretended to be puzzled: "Can't you?" Yesterday I saw that the gate was closed, and it is the same today, and there should be no one right. Don't be stingy with the boss, I'm not bad for money. ”

"Harm, look at you, can I still lie to you about this?" Boss Huang's tone was affirmative: "The yard is indeed rented out, and there are people in the yard, but they don't come out often, and there was a caravan yesterday, which seems to be a seafood trade, you can smell it when you get closer, and it smells of the sea, which stinks so much that it kills." ”

"I'll pay double the price, how about you go and drive them away and rent this yard to me?" Song Che asked again.

Boss Huang waved his hand again and again, "That can't, that can't, doing business is about integrity, and the original tenant specially instructed that the lease has not expired, and it is never allowed to check out." ”

Song Che thought to himself, and after some conversation, he could be sure that this Boss Huang was a serious businessman, and the tenant who rented his courtyard was the one who colluded with the Japanese robbers.

"Hey, I'm really happy about this courtyard," Song Che said urgently, "Does the boss know who the tenant of this courtyard is?" I went to him and asked him to sublet it to me. ”

Boss Huang shook his head and said: "I can't remember this clearly, he was in a hurry to rent at that time, and the deed was not made, so he gave the money to get the key and left."

"So arrogant? It's an out-of-towner, right? ”

"Listening to the accent, it should be a local Yangzhou person."

"Alas...... Okay, I'll have to wait for their lease to expire. ”

Song Che said goodbye to the owner of the grain store.

This conversation has a lot of information:

The Japanese had been plotting in Yangzhou City a month earlier.

Before the arrival of the Chuzhou caravan yesterday, there were already Japanese robbers entrenched in the courtyard.

The Japanese who came early must have no weapons, so they let the traitors disguise themselves as caravans and escort weapons into the city.

Equipping weapons is the last process before the operation, and there should be no more Japanese robbers entering the city after the caravan, more than 30 Japanese knives, more than 30 Japanese robbers, all of them must have been gathered, ready to go.

But why is it here?